G

Gamp, Mrs., 103

George, Henry, 94

German, Saint, 29

Gessi, Lieutenant Romolo, 199, 202

Gibbon, Edward, xiii, 172

Giberne, Miss Maria Rosina, 61

Gladstone, William Ewart

character, 232–234

his conscience, 244

on English occupation of Egypt, 212–213

English spirit, embodiment of, 186

Gordon, relationship with, 217, 234–237, 265

on Gorham Judgment, 42

Manning, relationship with, 6, 21, 32, 42–43, 82–83, 96

Nightingale, relationship with, 141

Papal Infallibility, 76, 77

War Office reform, 139, 141

Gordon, Augusta

Gordon's letters to (quoted), 188, 197–198, 204, 231, 249, 259

her influence on Gordon, 187

Queen Victoria, exchange with, 264–265

Gordon, General Charles George, 185–267

in Abyssinia, 202–203

at Academy at Woolwich, 186

Baker, Sir Samuel, relationship with, 216, 217, 219

Baring, relationship with, 201, 215, 216, 217–218, 225, 226, 236, 237, 238–240, 242–243, 249–250, 263

Barnes, relationship with, 216–217, 218

in Bessarabia, 187

birth, 186

character, 194, 196–197, 219

childhood, 186

in China, 186–188, 189–193, 204

Companion of the Bath, 193

Congo service, 205, 214, 218

in Crimean War, 187

Elphinstone, relationship with, 204

English spirit, embodiment of, 186

Ever Victorious Army, commander, 189–193

fame and glory, 226

faroucheness, 194, 252

Gladstone, relationship with, 217, 234–237, 265

Governor, Equatorial Provinces of Sudan, 197–201, 205–206

Governor-General of Sudan (1st time), 201

Governor-General of Sudan (2nd time), 224, 227

Granville, relationship with, 224, 228, 229, 237, 250

Gravesend, service at, 194

Hartington, relationship with, 221–223, 231, 244, 246

in India, 203–204

Gordon, General Charles George (continued)

an insect, himself, 204

Khartoum (see Khartoum) [on this page]

Li Hung Chang, relationship with, 190, 191–193, 204

in Mauritius, 204–205

Mohammed Ahmed (The Mahdi of Sudan), face to face with, 264

Mohammed Ahmed (The Mahdi of Sudan), relationship with, 219, 243, 252, 254

mood swings, 200–201

at Pembroke, 187

Queen Victoria and, 231–232

religious convictions, 185, 187, 194–197, 231, 253, 259, 261

Renan, relationship with, 257

Ripon's Private Secretary, 203

sister (see Gordon, Augusta) [on this page]

Slatin Pasha, relationship with, 256, 264

his Wangs, 194

Wolseley, relationship with, 217, 218, 220

Zobeir, relationship with, 224–225, 229–230, 236, 251, 252

Gorham, Rev. George Cornelius, 40–42

Graham, Sir Gerald, 229, 230

Granville, Lord (Granville George Leveson-Gower)

Gordon, relationship with, 224, 228, 229, 237, 250

Gordon's appointment to Khartoum, 215, 216, 217–218, 220, 221, 224

Gregory XIII, Pope, 81

Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume, 74

H

Hall, Sir John, 108, 112, 113, 118, 121–122

Hare, Archdeacon Julius Charles, 20, 21

Hartington, Lord (Spencer Compton Cavendish)

character, 244–245

his conscience, 244

English spirit, embodiment of, 186, 244–245

Gordon, relationship with, 221–223, 231, 244, 246

his proudest moment, 245

Hawes, Sir Benjamin, 138

Hawkins, Edward, 155

Helier, Saint, 29

Henry VIII, 14, 22

Herbert, Sidney

death, 140, 141

Nightingale, relationship with, 106, 111, 117–119, 121, 128–129, 133, 135, 136, 138–140

Royal Commission on Army's health, 132, 133

Secretary of State for War, 136

stag to Panmure's bison, 129

War Office reform, 137–139

Hicks, Colonel William (Hicks Pasha), 211–212

historians, ignorance requisite, xiii

Hong-siu-tsuen (the Tien Wang), 188–189

Howard, Lord Edward, 68

Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown's Schooldays, 159–160, 176, 181

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 85, 86

I

Innocent III, Pope, 3

insubordinates, 252

Ismail, Khedive, 198, 201, 202

J

John XXII, Pope, 73

Jowett, Benjamin, 147–148

K

Keate, John, 158, 162, 181

Keble, John

on Abraham's 318 circumcisions, 16–17

Arnold, relationship with, 156

Christianity to, 14

on England's need for ferocity in religion, 15

Froude and, 11, 12

High Anglican tight-rope dancer, 32

on the number five to early church fathers, 16

superabundant piety, 9–10

Ward and, 28

Khartoum

evacuees from, 248–249, 255

Gordon's appointment to, 214–224

Gordon's death at, 263–264

Gordon's journal about, 249–254, 258–259

Gordon's objectives, 215–216, 219–221, 228

Gordon's refusal to leave, 235, 249, 251, 259

relief expedition, 234–236, 240, 243–244, 246–248, 251, 260

siege of, 230–231, 241–243, 258, 261–263

Kingsley, Charles, 24, 64

Kitchener, Lord (Horatio Herbert Kitchener), 255, 259, 265

L

Lawrence, Lord (John Laird Mair Lawrence), 146

Leben Jesu (Strauss), 172

Leo XIII, Pope, 88, 89, 92

Li Hung Chang, 189, 190, 191–193, 204

liberalism, symptoms in England, 9

Long, Colonel Charles Chaillé-, 200

"Look after Dowb," 126

Lupton Bey, F., 212, 241, 255

Lyons, Lord (Edmund Lyons), 203